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Lithographiae Wirceburgensis, ducentis lapidum figuratorum, a potiori insectiformium, prodigiosis imaginibus exornatae specimen primum

Beringer, Johann Bartholomäus Adam, Hueber, Georg Ludwig · 1726 · apud Philippum Wilhelmum Fuggart, Bibliopolam Aulico-Academicum · 32 pictures

Lithographiae Wirceburgensis is a 1726 Latin scholarly treatise on fossil-like stone figures, written by Johann Bartholomäus Adam Beringer and Georg Ludwig Hueber and printed in Würzburg for learned readers and collectors. Its plates show rows of carved stones depicting insects, plants, crabs and other creatures, all rendered as fine engraved line art with dark shading on rough rock matrices.

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